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From Great City, a discussion of "shared space" and the dual purpose functions of streets as movement and social space/transactions, which could similarly be dichotomized as macro-connections (driving from point A to point B) and micro-connections (crossing the street):

I also really like and want to call attention to the charting of highway functions, purposes, and logic with that of the public realm:

HIGHWAY:

Regulated

Impersonal

Linear

Single Purpose

Consistent (ed. note: for rhetorical purposes one might say 'monotonous' or 'relentless')

Predictable

Systematic

State-controlled

Signs and markings (aka regulation)

PUBLIC REALM:

Culturally defined

Personal

Spatial (non-linear)

Multi-purpose (adaptable)

Constantly changing

Unpredictable (interesting)

Contextual (locally defined)

Cultural/Social rules (mores)

Eye Contact

One of these operates under the rules of complex, interdependent, and resilience of networks. The other doesn't.